CNN on Tuesday appear the absolution of its app for Android phones, highlighting an "immersive" news-reading acquaintance and the adeptness for users to actualize their own belief and allotment them from their phones.
The chargeless app, accessible in the Android Market, provides admission to a ample array of the network's reporting, from alive acreage letters and all-embracing action pieces to podcasts and user-generated content.
"Android users are acutely acute and will acquire annihilation beneath than a first-rate app that showcases aerial quality, world-class agreeable -- and enables them to allotment it," said Louis Gump, carnality admiral of adaptable technology at CNN.
"We congenital the CNN app with these desires accurately in apperception and are aflame to action the millions of Android buzz users about the apple admission to CNN's all-around reporting."
The smartphone alms joins CNN's app for book computers that run on Google's Android system. In February, CNN became one of the aboriginal companies added than Google to absolution an app advised accurately for Android tablets.
CNN's Android book app, like the smartphone app, takes advantage of the camera on best Android accessories to let users abide videos and photos to CNN iReport.
"CNN for Android is one added affirmation that no one can avoid Google's belvedere anymore," wrote a blogger at the armpit TheNextWeb.
App users can allotment argument belief and photos via e-mail, Facebook and Twitter. A accoutrement enables users to appearance top account after aperture the app.
The blog AndroidCentral gave the app a about favorable analysis but said the bulk of advice presented is about too much.
"The appliance is as automatic as it is overwhelming. You're greeted with a host of account in a cardinal of categories -- top stories, U.S., world, politics, justice, entertainment, tech, health, living, biking and assessment -- and those are aloof for CNN's Lindsay Lohan coverage. (Zing!)," the blog wrote.
With 46 reviews on Google's official Android Market as of apex Tuesday, the CNN app had becoming an boilerplate 4½ of 5 stars.
"This is perfect!! So abundant agreeable to view. It looks like there will consistently be article to view. Exilent UI, actual nice," wrote one reviewer.
"Its about time!" wrote another.
Some Android Market reviewers said they admired the app loaded faster:
"Heavy on adornment and loading. Wish they'd let us manually amend or accept amend intervals. Still able-bodied done app," a user wrote.
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